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•24有许多人跟随、拥挤他。25有一个女人，患了十二年的血漏，26在好些医生手里受了许多的苦，又花尽了她所有的，一点也不见好，病势反倒更重了。27她听见耶稣的事，就从后头来，杂在众人中间，摸耶稣的衣裳，28意思说：“我只摸他的衣裳，就必痊愈。”29于是她血漏的源头立刻干了，她便觉得身上的灾病好了。30耶稣顿时心里觉得有能力从自己身上出去，就在众人中间转过来，说：“谁摸我的衣裳？”31门徒对他说：“你看众人拥挤你，还说‘谁摸我’吗？”32耶稣周围观看，要见作这事的女人。33那女人知道在自己身上所成的事，就恐惧战兢，来俯伏在耶稣跟前，将实情全告诉他。34耶稣对她说：“女儿，你的信救了你，平平安安地回去吧！你的灾病痊愈了。”
这个神迹中的一些细节是很感人的。有些人患有人们看不见的疾病。可能是纤维肌痛症、红斑狼疮、关节炎或偏头痛。如果是腿脚残疾、盲人或聋哑人，人们可以眼睛看到并表示同情。但如果患有我们在外表看不见的疾病，这些人往往独自承受着痛苦。其他人甚至可能认为这些病痛只是你的想象。谁想听你抱怨你的痛苦?但你的痛苦是真实的，就像那个女人一样，通常无法治愈。
至于故事中的女人，她患了十二年的血漏，在礼仪律法上她被认为是不洁净的。这使她更加被孤立。她去看了医生，花了她所有的钱来寻找治疗方法。没有什么帮助。她听说了耶稣。她就去找耶稣，她想:“我只摸他的衣服，就必痊愈。”她的信心多么大！
只是，耶稣没有这么轻易地让她离开。他知道有人触摸他。他环顾四周，想看看是谁。他当然知道是谁，他可以让她被医治后默默离开。但耶稣并没有。为什么?因为耶稣想让她知道，他看到了她的痛苦。他想对她说些安慰的话。“平平安安地回去吧！你的灾病痊愈了”。
你今天也是在默默的忍受痛苦吗?来听希伯来书4章15节对你的安慰，“因我们的大祭司并非不能体恤我们的软弱，他也曾凡事受过试探，与我们一样，只是他没有犯罪。所以我们只管坦然无惧地来到施恩的宝座前，为要得怜恤，蒙恩惠，作随时的帮助。”
祷告:主耶稣啊，你知道我不为人知的罪，感谢你把我的罪除去。你知道我不为人知的痛苦，我依然感谢你，因为我知道你会在我需要的时候帮助我。阿们。
Mark 5:24-34: A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ” 32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” (NIV)
There is something about this miracle that is touching. Some people suffer from illnesses that people cannot see. It might be fibromyalgia or lupus or arthritis or migraine headaches. If you are crippled or blind or deaf, people can see this and be sympathetic. But those who suffer from illnesses we cannot see often suffer alone. People may even think that it is just in your head. Who wants to hear you complain about your misery? But your pain is real, and like the woman, there is often no cure.
In the case of the woman in the story, she had been subject to bleeding for twelve years—which would have made her unclean. It isolated her even more. She had been to the doctors and she had spent all that she had to find a cure. Nothing helped. She heard about Jesus. She went and thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” What faith she had!
Only, Jesus didn’t let her off the hook so easily. He knew that someone had touched him. He looked around to see who it was. He certainly knew who it was, and he could have let her blend into the crowd and stay anonymous. But he didn’t. Why? Because he wanted her to know that he saw her misery. He wanted to speak words of comfort to her. “Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
Are you suffering in silence today? “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:15-16).
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you for knowing even my secret sins, and for taking them away. Thank you for knowing my secret pains, too, because I know you will help me in my time of need. Amen.